Despite plans to patent its Corda distributed ledger, R3 is also making good on an early-stated objective of open sourcing it. That should begin to happen on November 30 when R3 submits it to the Hyperledger Project incubation process.

For more information, see this article in the Distributed Ledger.​Corda isn’t the only proprietary distributed ledger to take the open source route. Chain recently announced a development version of its Chain Core offering, which is also being provided under and open source license.